Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, Loebeo has more MTV than Bronte and while it lacks the novel's intensity and passion, master veejay Keshishian spins a clever series of vignettes, which manage to tie the simple plot line and lyrics together...
Wilson's intense desire to see General Huerta removed obviously led him to search for a suitable replacement. The most promising candidate he could find was one Venustiano Carranza and his band of "Constitutionalists." But they were consitutionalists in name only, as a clever ploy to appeal to Wilson. When they eventually gained power, they threw their democratic pretensions out the window and left Wilson with a regime even more despotic than the one he had seen overthrown...
...easy to disentangle the "layers of corporations" and the maze of intermediaries that Marcos used as a front. "Not once do you find the name of Marcos on any of the New York papers," said Salonga in a conversation with TIME editors in New York. "He's a very clever lawyer." The chase abroad promised to be no less complicated, in spite of the decisive action of the Swiss. "Some people talk about $79.4 million here in Switzerland, some talk about $1 billion," said Hans Mast, an executive vice president of Credit Suisse. "But how do you identify deposits...
...often the case with well-made plays, Precious Sons is not made quite well enough. Some of its incidents seem unlikely, and its cheery ending is a rather facile reversal. But Furth creates convincing people: he gives them clever, well-wrought and wholly plausible dialogue; and he appreciates the timeless give-and-take of family life, its perilous candor and its resilience. The play evokes the temper and flavor of the years just after World War II, when economic change was the order of the day. The father went to work at a time when men could climb the corporate...
...lottery does not always work this way because it requires freshmen to make clever calculations and to take risks. Number 99 may think that Adams House is out of the question or not worth the risk, while number 100 may be better at calculating its possibility of getting into Adams, or more adventuresome. In this manner, group 100 may get into Adams while group 99 does not, although both groups wished to live there. Clearly, the lottery does not live up to its intention...